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$541.7m tourism earnings
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Thomas Wynne: Where were our leaders while children suffered?
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Cook Islands passport proposal
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Top cop position advertised
7 December 2024
Police need numbers and bigger budget
9 December 2024
Niki Rattle: A call for stronger human rights protections
10 December 2024
Solid and Hazardous Waste Bill referred to Parliament committee
10 December 2024
DPM defends CIIC finance and travel policies
6 December 2024
Cook Islands has its first mosque
14 November 2024
CI Muslim opens up about her faith and journey
16 November 2024
RAC to address mosque legality
19 November 2024
I don’t expect much change: PM Brown on US Elections
6 November 2024
Fifth weekly Sydney flight to Rarotonga announced
23 October 2024
CIIC directors seek $350,000 in damages over defamatory claims
21 October 2024
Man found guilty of rape, burglary
24 September 2024
Tenants face water bill burden
8 October 2024
Concerns over Minister’s role in inmate work releases: PAC
5 October 2024
Tourism contribution set to surpass half-billion dollar mark
25 September 2024
Parliament Clerk sparks outrage over deep sea mining statement
23 September 2024
Deep sea dilemma: Cook Islanders weigh the cost of mineral riches
21 September 2024
Anxiety on the rise: Cook Islands faces mental health challenge
7 September 2024
Cook Islands deep sea mining poll sparks controversy
7 September 2024
MCI rejects ‘dark fleet’ label
3 August 2024
Rising seas, rising costs: Climate impacts on Cook Islands economy
2 September 2024
Inflation eases but concerns remain
31 August 2024
Prime Minister defends $659,000 MPs travel bill
23 August 2024
Taxpayers foot $659,000 bill for MPs travel and allowance
22 August 2024
Corruption report exposes ‘bribe and sexual favours’
17 January 2023
PM Brown eager to hand over Forum chair role to Tonga
13 August 2024
Challenging ‘rape culture’
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Opinion
Norman George: Lengthy unjustified adjournments of Parliament a thing of the past
The Sift column has always equipped itself an investigative role by an in-depth study of critical issues, involving the public interest. In other words, it will sift and sieve the facts like turning over riverbed pebbles and shingles to look for gold. Once gold is struck, there is a loud exclamation, “Gotcha!”
Opinion: We may grapple with a changing world but we must never let go of each other
Let us disagree, and disagree strongly, but never should we let go of each other in the process and see each other as enemies.
Jaewynn McKay: Some of my best friends are 'criminals'
Nelson Mandela once said, “leaders will have to give clear and decisive leadership towards a world of tolerance and respect for difference”.
Ruta Tangiiau Mavé: God created 500 species that show homosexual behaviour – what was he thinking?
Let’s talk about sex baby, let’s talk about you and me, let’s talk about all the good things and the bad things of sodomy, let’s talk about sex! Or so the song goes – is that what we are talking about with the laws criminalising same-sex relations?
Norman George: People of Atiu are unwilling to help themselves
The Democratic Party conference was loaded with metamorphic changes.
Opinion: Are we still not ready for change?
A list of names was left on my desk, six names of students I had to urgently meet, left by the departing school counsellor in 2011. One I would later find had suicidal tendencies, three were just struggling to be in a larger school, one had been sexually assaulted by a family member and one was gay.
Opinion: Sexual violence is the real concern
Opponents on both side of the same-sex law reform debate agree on one thing: the real concern is abuse and violence.
Norman George: The plight of Maori medicine and treatment
Pause for a moment and ask yourself, how did our ancestors survive when they got sick? Don’t say they never got sick, they did. How were they treated?
Norman George: Around town and the islands
The Cook Islands Christian Church’s National Conference was held in Atiu. Hundreds descended on the island.
Thomas Wynne: Going out on a limb, taking risks Voyaging is in our blood
Our people have not all fared well in their voyaging to Aotearoa and to Australia – but now things are beginning to change.
Opinion: Taking Mum back to Raro in 2002
My first visit to Raro will be her last.
Norman George: Crossing the red line: Be careful!
All democratic systems are guided by the rule of law. When this is broken a cascade of chaos follows. High drama and public showboating are displayed openly by the actors responsible, some of them basking in the glow of their newfound glory!
Opinion: Shining the light
Our Cook Islands communities on either side of the ocean have never been closer. The recognition of leaders like Glenda Tuaine Newport, Niki Rattle, Mama Tuki and her daughter Elizabeth Wright-Koteka.
Opinion: 'Tears are streaming down my face as I recall that long night'
Dear editor, It’s deeply heartening to see community leaders now coming together to make the wearing of crash helmets mandatory for all.
Norman George: Te Kukupa police boat Princess Paruru Moana serves us well
The offer of a free patrol boat from Australia by Prime Minister Bob Hawke came as a pleasant surprise for us in 1985. We had longed to engage the Asian fishing pirates who raided our ocean and uninhabited islands like Suwarrow, Manuae and Takutea to steal our fish and shell fish.
Opinion: Helmet law to save mothers from grief
The nine funerals I have been to in the time I have lived here are nine I can never forget, and more so for the families left in their wake.
Jonathan Milne: These hills will not remain remote
EDITORIAL: This weekend, my friend David and I absconded. We shirked all home and childcare responsibility and climbed up the valley behind Avatiu to Te Rua Manga.
Norman George: Dealing with mentally challenged clients
In the 30 years that I have been practicing law in the criminal bar, I have come across a variety of individuals. The snappy chatty know-alls usually are the “con artists,” the drug dependent pickle brained “where am I type?”
Biting back- The future looks good because we've made it that way through hard work
This is a crisp, concise column. And there’s a reason for that. Because here in the Cooks, we all have plenty of work to get on with.
Norman George: We all have a role in averting the agony and pain of crime against children
Nothing is more painful and tormenting than violent crimes against children. God’s greatest creation, humankind, begins with children.
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